Honda is already improving this season and if they can continue this trajectory (which is no guarantee), they’ll be on par or better than Renault next season.

Hamilton accusing others of conspiring against him? Yawn. He really needs to come up with some new shtick.

Perez needs a suspension. He’s dangerous. Shocked there was no further action on his accident, it was intentional, brainless, and dangerous to my mind. Force India have already come out and said they will not be allowed to race each other moving forward.

It’s all pointless. McLaren are stuck. They showed too much promise this year for Merc to share their engines. McLaren, meanwhile, should have been moving heaven and earth to find at least one engine partner. Having only 2 units vs 6+ compared to every other manufacturer is such a massive pain point.

He’s a convicted felon. He’s agreed, apparently, to the terms of a pardon. He was never a threat to the public (outside of his role in public service). I’m certainly not defending the douchebag, but let’s not make the mountain out of a molehill that Trump is begging us to do. This is simply a distraction. Who cares. I…

The real question is if Billy had transplanted any name in Demebele’s place, would the article have read almost exactly the same? But hey, let’s go ahead and buy the Barca narrative that this guy is worth more than any other player on the planet not named Neymar. Sure.

You’ve obviously never read Billy Haisley before...

Bale has been involved in a Madrid goal every 89.9 minutes. He sucks.

You can argue over who “deserves” the décima but he scored the winner.

He was never charged with anything (and obviously never found guilty) so he was given a pardon that’s never been truly utilized. Ford issued a sweeping pardon to cover everything. Nixon accepted the pardon. No charges ever came about because the pardon would have made it pointless. So even though he accepted the…

You don’t just pardon someone. They would also have to accept the pardon. By accepting a pardon, you admit guilt to the crime for which you are pardoned and you could be compelled to testify regarding that crime in court (say, collusion with Russia). Trump has backed himself into a corner and the power of pardon won’t…

they’re set up as good as they could be to keep Mercedes from overtaking them in the points

The Honda engine has excessive vibrations which is causing other things to disconnect or fail on the car. That’s a large part of the reason why you see a lot of non-engine issues on the car. It was supposedly going to be fixed for the current iteration but who knows.

Well they were rumored to be dropping Sauber long before this announcement, so it could be they allowing Sauber to claim it was their choice...or not. Honda really needed this to just get more units out in the field to sort out their problems (which is why the rumors of them pulling out of this deal baffled me).…

will probably sell a lot of tickets

You’re somewhat amusing. If you’re trolling, you need to step up your game though.

If anyone accepts a pardon they would be admitting guilt for the pardoned crime and be compelled to testify at future proceedings. Trump will be putting himself into a corner.

The fee is 80 million euros + 5 million for reaching certain targets. This translates to a base fee of around 70 million GBP. This has been widely reported by everyone except for the beeb (Sky and both the Madrid & Barca leaning papers report the higher fee).

No. He didn’t grant it and he isn’t the one that revokes it. He could issue an EO to change the clearance process, though that would affect clearances across the board and I think even the blind GOP would push back on something like that. But the President currently has the power to declassify anything he wishes so if…

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that Martin Brundle had to leave the British GP with a nasty stomach virus only a week after drinking the shoey.